Tuesday 28 June 2022 08:30 PM Trump says he 'hardly knows' this 'total phony' Cassidy Hutchinson trends now
Former President Donald Trump tried to distance himself from former aide Cassidy Hutchinson who was the House January 6 select committee's special guest during Tuesday's surprise hearing.
'I hardly know who this person, Cassidy Hutchinson, is, other than I heard very negative things about her (a total phony and "leaker"), and when she requested to go with certain others of the team to Florida after my having served a full term in office, I personally turned her request down,' Trump posted to his social media site Truth Social as Hutchinson's testimony was ongoing.
Hutchinson provided a number of embarrassing anecdotes about Trump's behavior during her Tuesday testimony - including that he tried to grab the wheel of the presidential limo, the 'Beast,' after he was told he couldn't go to the Capitol Building on January 6 and threw food at the wall after Attorney General Bill Barr said there was no widespread fraud in the 2020 election.
Using Truth Social, former President Donald Trump (left) tried to distance himself from ex-aide Cassidy Hutchinson (right) as she testified Tuesday in front of the January 6 House select committee
The former president pushed that Cassidy Hutchinson was only playing ball with the Democrat-led committee because he didn't keep her on his payroll after he left office in January 2021 and relocated to Mar-a-Lago
'Why did she want to go with us if she felt we were so terrible?' Trump said Tuesday.
He suggested that Hutchinson only played ball with the Democrat-led committee because he didn't give her a job at Mar-a-Lago after he departed the White House in January 2021.
'I understand that she was very upset and angry that I didn’t want her to go, or be a member of the team,' Trump said. 'She is bad news!'
In another post on Truth social, Trump also accused Hutchinson of changing her story.
'She changed lawyers a couple of days ago, and with it, her story totally changed! SHOCKER???' the ex-president alleged.
Trump has a history of turning on former aides and ex-political allies, a roster that now includes former Vice President Mike Pence and current Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
The former president fumed over the testimony Hutchinson delivered about him throwing temper tantrums.
'Her Fake story that I tried to grab the steering wheel of the White House Limousine in order to steer it to the Capitol Building is "sick" and fraudulent, very much like the Unselect Committee itself - Wouldn’t even have been possible to do such a ridiculous thing,' Trump wrote.
'Her story of me throwing food is also false…and why would SHE have to clean it
